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Colombia

53,425,635

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+539.27K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+36.7%from 39.09M
Life expectancy77.9 years2024
Fertility rate1.63births per woman · 2024
Urban population78.8%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Colombia is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1420.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6469.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+10.2%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate13.3births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+7.8births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+129.14Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Colombia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 59.39M in 2050—12.3% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202452.89M
  2. 205059.39M
  3. 210047.08M
Median age in 205043.7years
Births in 2050544.86Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050540.61Kduring the year
Life expectancy82.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196015.61M
  2. 197020.81M
  3. 198026.1M
  4. 199032.44M
  5. 200039.09M
  6. 201044.78M
  7. 202050.63M
  8. 202553.43M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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